January 2008

Bye bye, Bangalore; saying it with saplings

16 January 2008 - 12:06pm — GVK

If everyone who goes abroad the first time – students, IT professionals or baby-sitting NRI parents – were to plant a roadside sapling to mark the occasion, we could have a green corridor all along the way to the airport in three to five years.

TRAFFIC - A MENACE IN BANGALORE

15 January 2008 - 7:48pm — maguesh

Frnds plz post ur responses in the questionnaire attached with the link provided below and help me in carrying out a survey on the topic. http://www.esurveyspro.co...

2 comments

East loop of Outer Ring Road (Silkboard - Marathahalli - Hebbal) should get:

15 January 2008 - 8:10pm

Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS)

24% (13 votes)

Monorail (Like the west loop, so full ORR will be monorail

69% (37 votes)

Increased frequency of buses (Refer Murali's post on Indore bus system)

7% (4 votes)

Total votes: 54

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Indore buses: sure better than Bangalore, but not good enough!

12 January 2008 - 10:42pm — murali772

I am referring to the Indore bus services, which has been touted by many as the World's best public-private bus partnership - Indore. I had raised a few questions about the Indore model, vide my posting under the caption ‘better bussing’ on 22nd Dec, ’07.

Subsequently, I had attended the seminar on ‘Effective Traffic Management’ convened jointly by the DPAR and Centre for Public Policy, IIM, Bangalore, at the Vikas Soudha on the 4th Jan, at which a presentation was made by Mr Shukla from Indore (he had come in place of Mr Vivek Agarwal, IAS, Dist Magistrate, who had conceived the entire scheme and who was originally supposed to come), and the answers to the questions I had raised became more or less clear, based on which I have drawn my conclusions.

BTRAC - Cat eyes, Hazard blinkers coming next

12 January 2008 - 11:30pm — silkboard

While flipping through the papers today, I noticed this KRDCL tender inviting bids (link here) for some interesting things that included road side traffic sign boards (Rs 2.7 crores), cat eyes (57.7 lakhs), hazard blinkers, movable cones, barricades and more - all in all about Rs 5 crore worth of stuff. Not a lot of money, but lets keep watching for these traffic management equipment to appear.

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